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This report examines the dynamics of trends in marijuana use
detected at 23 locations across the Nation served by the Arrestee
Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM) from 1987 through 1998; the
analysis provides insight into prevailing trends among youths who
tend to get in trouble with both drugs and the law, and it also
examines trends prevailing in the general population nationwide
by using data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
and the Monitoring the Future programs.

Abstract:

Marijuana use nationwide had continually dropped from a peak
around 1979 until the early 1990's. Starting in 1991, most of 23
ADAM locations experienced a rapid increase in use among youthful
(age 18-20) arrestees from an average low of 25 percent in 1991
up to 57 percent in 1996. Two national surveys also recorded
rapid but more modest increases in youthful marijuana use within
the mainstream population starting a year later. From 1996 to
1999, most ADAM locations as well as the national surveys
recorded stable but relatively high levels of youthful marijuana
use, suggesting that by 1999 the marijuana epidemic had
stabilized nationwide. Marijuana itself appears to be the
drug-of-choice for a new generation of ADAM arrestees, especially
when smoked as a blunt in an inexpensive cigar. Members of this
marijuana/blunts generation (arrestees born since 1970) were
much less likely to become involved with crack or heroin
injection than their predecessors. Extensive tables and figures
and 27 selected references

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